• Full-length image of the cover of Rimaldas Viskratis’s photography book NAKED, a black cover with a debossed graphic.
  • Spread of NAKED. Verso shows a figure of indeterminate sex turned away from the camera, hunched over, obscuring their face with one of the pots strewn about their feet. Recto shows a female-appearing person covering chest and genitals with pots and kitchen equipment, a mixer tipped over their head with ladles hanging from the sides in imitation of long hair and earrings.
  • Spread of NAKED. Verso is blank. Recto shows a person of indeterminate sex kneeling, holding an animal’s skeletal head in front of their face.
  • Spread of NAKED. One image occupies both pages. Image depicts a nude couple in a room. The wife is embraced by the husband, smoking a cigarette. A kitchen table occupies the verso.

Rimaldas Vikšraitis - Naked

VIKŠRAITIS-NAKED

$ 70
$ 70

Description

Rimaldas Vikšraitis is best known for his intimate documentary photographs of rural life in Lithuania. They depict with humour the ‘ease’ of the customary laid back alcohol use in the daily lives of the people portrayed, which are in fact far from funny. Vikšraitis himself says about his subject matter: ‘They bear their cross and do not grumble about their fate.’ If you have nothing, and there is no hope of improving your mere existence, then you at least have your body at your disposal. Travelling on his bicycle, Vikšraitis takes artistic, uncomplicated and carefree nude photographs. For in the field, the open air, naked, everyone is the same.

Martin Parr has said about these pictures: "They are slightly insane and wonderfully surreal."

  • Hardcover
  • 170 x 240 mm 
  • 90 page
  • Published by Heden